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posted in News & media on Oct 30th, 2009
The foreign ministry characterised the incident as a “virus attack” but said computer systems were targeted with the intent of gathering specific information.The extent of the breach is unknown and officials did not say what information was targeted. They are still trying to track down the source of the attack.
The hack was apparently designed not [...]
Find here some pictures from the Swiss Big Brother Award. This event took place last weekend (24. october) in Zürich. Me and two other groups were nominated in the category “creditable behaviour”. We were the only nominees who wanted to receive the award personally. unfortunately Swisscom, Berufsbildungsschule Winterthur, the ÜPF and Deltavista were unable to [...]
posted in News & media on Oct 23rd, 2009
Malware-infected computers are increasingly being used to perpetrate click fraud, according to a study released Thursday that found their contribution was the highest since researchers began compiling statistics on the crime.
posted in Tools & sources on Oct 22nd, 2009
Tool name :
PrintScreen version 0.2
Description :
PrintScreen is a tool that snaps a picture of whole the display (not only of the window that
is currently in the foreground), converts the screenshot to the JPG format and saves it. Afterwards the
screenshot is displayed with the default image viewer.
Tested on :
Windows XP
Feedback :
In case you encounter any [...]
posted in RAT sources, Tools & sources, Worm sources on Oct 16th, 2009
Name
Win32/Rbot
Malware type
RAT, Worm
Author
Unknown
Written in
C
Description
Rbot is an IRC controlled backdoor (or “bot”) that can be used to gain unauthorized access to a victim’s machine. It can also exhibit worm-like functionality by exploiting weak passwords on administrative shares and by exploiting many different software vulnerabilities, as well as backdoors created by other malware. There are many variants [...]
posted in Stuff on Oct 15th, 2009
Today the Swiss Big Brother Award organisation team published the list of nominees (not the winners) of which people think they have deserved a price for their great surveillance and controlling activities. I was nominated, too but in the more honorable category for “creditable behaviour”. Thanks so far for the nomination. Slightly irritating the [...]
posted in News & media on Oct 15th, 2009
I remember someone told me propagating a trojan nowadays by email is ineffective and the stupidest suggestion I made here. Even if not very elegant or 1337 apparently it’s still quite effective as you can read in this news article. People still doubleclick on executable attachments as a dog will chase the tennisball when you [...]
posted in Reading material on Oct 14th, 2009
Introduction
This tutorial walks you though a very simple case to crack a WEP key. It is intended to build your basic skills and get you familiar with the concepts. It assumes you have a working wireless card with drivers already patched for injection.
It is recommended that you experiment with your home wireless access [...]
posted in RAT sources, Tools & sources on Oct 13th, 2009
RAT name
PsyRAT 2
Author
Psyphen
Written in
C
Description
Many of the typical RAT functions were implemented. Simple and straightforward. As the author stated the code is not very structured but LOC is low and you will find the paragraphs you’re intrested in.
It contains server and client but unfortunately the stub is compiled and comes without source code.
Questions
In case you [...]
posted in Antivirus, Reading material on Oct 9th, 2009
An article that describes in simple steps how an AV engine is structured. Easy to understand, not too technical and without any code.
Building an Anti-Virus engine (by Markus Schmall, 2002)
The article will describe the basic ideas, concepts, components and approaches involved in developing an anti-virus program from scratch from a developer’s/software engineer’s point of view. [...]
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